http://disqus.com/people/6e56c7c71c6468fbbc6bdf75bf4ec371/enWed, 20 Feb 2008 10:44:52 -0000http://districtweekly.disqus.com/papadakis_taverna_out_marie_callender8217s_in_the_district_weekly/#comment-1363298This is yet another indicator of the urgent need to be rid of Hahn.<br><br>She isn't going to stop until she has sucked the last drop of character out of our town and "re-imagined" it as a human petting-zoo for yuppies.<br><br>Tear down the ridiculous "Janice Hahn Memorial Park" at the end of the 110 and put a Marie Callender's there.<br><br>Papadakis Taverna is San Pedro. Janice Hahn is not.RayTue, 19 Feb 2008 11:51:57 -0000http://districtweekly.disqus.com/papadakis_taverna_out_marie_callender8217s_in_the_district_weekly/#comment-1363299I too read the article in the Breeze before reading this one. John Papadakis' desire to "retire" is qualified; the redevelopment agency's goal to put a chain restaurant in place of his taverna is not.<br><br>"Cleaning up crime" is, of course, laudable. Driving out the working-class people who help give SP its special character by making it impossible for them to afford to live here is not.<br><br>Hahn is, first and foremost, a politician. She knows how to deliver a death sentence couched in praise. She will speak glowingly of every local business steamrollered by her plans to turn this town into "another Santa Barbara."<br><br>If she wants a soulless, corporate town with plenty of shiny surface glitz and no soul, let her cross the Vincent Thomas and move eastward a couple of miles.RayWed, 20 Feb 2008 10:44:52 -0000